Task Episode 6 Ends in Shootout, Two Dead, FBI Mole Exposed

Episode 6 of the HBO series Task, which aired Sunday, October 12, escalated the season's violence and shifted the show's central conflict when a planned rendezvous in the woods ended in a deadly confrontation that left two major characters dead and exposed a mole inside the FBI task force. The episode, set in a small Philadelphia suburb, brought the FBI, the Prendergrast family and the Dark Hearts motorcycle gang into a shootout that resulted in Robbie Prendergrast being fatally stabbed and state trooper Lizzie Stover being run over as the bikers fled.

The violence unfolded after Robbie, played by Tom Pelphrey, arranged what he presented as a drug sale to secure money for his family. Both the Dark Hearts and the federal task force had converged on the meeting. A firefight broke out, and Robbie confronted Jayson, one of the gang leaders. Jayson delivered a mortal stab wound to Robbie, who later bled out. As the bikers escaped, they struck Lizzie with their vehicle. She died at the scene or shortly after, leaving the task force stunned.

The episode also made explicit that Anthony Grasso, a Delaware County detective on the task force portrayed by Fabien Frankel, had been leaking...